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On an afternoon of high tension, Dalglish’s claim that he had not seen Suárez decline to shake Evra’s hand only exacerbated it, even though he subsequently apologisedTimes photographer,Bradley Ormesher

Kenny Dalglish is losing the plot. That much was clear even before the game
started, his smirking and grudging answers to anodyne questions from a
television reporter reflecting the epic paranoia that he has nurtured in the
privacy of his own mind since the FA released its judgment on the Luis
Suárez affair and which is now threatening to undermine his reputation.

The interaction with Liverpool fans, not to mention the behaviour of Suárez,
has been toxic. Dalglish’s sense of victimisation, the notion that the world
is against a club that is widely revered (even by many opposition fans, if